(Daily News, NoV. 24.)

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 280, 26 February 1874, Page 2

(Daily News, NoV. 24.)

Mr Diskaeli fired off * series of rattliug sarcasms at hii opponents without seeming to be merely repeating old and formal accusations. His reference to Mr Lowe was one of the mcst vivackiuß and telling part* of the speech. In poliUM, indeed, as the late Emperor Napoleon laid it down, there it no gratitude. Times are changed tince the benches of Torjiim used to ring with cheers that seemed like Tennyson's echoes, to grow for ever and ever, a* Mr Lowe gave forth hi* epigrammatic utterances concerning the wisdom and virtue of the working-classes and of the people "that live in those small houses." It was those speeches which piccured for Mr Lowe an invitation to become a colleague of Mr Disraeli in the Government of the late Lord Derby. Some of the Glasgow working men may purhapt have wondered or regretted that Mr Disraeli did not then discharge at Mr Lowe the sarcasms which are so amusing now. But nuch a feeling would only show that their education is defective as regards the compnbcTiii»-o£jk» art »f yaotiual statesmanship, sad the occasional virtue of tEat silence* which given consent even where it does not signify cordial assent. Id any case, we fancy must people will kdjoj Mr Disraeli's attack on Mr Lowe. The saying, " a corsaire, corsaire et demi," is & good phrase, which might have its application when such a master of the science of rhetorical warfare a* Mr Disraeli turns his weapon* against feu unsparing u practitioner as Mr Lowe. The speech, on the whole, must be described as good humored. The elaboiate impeachment of her Majesty's Government was not really meant to be very formidable, and, in fact, hardly reads as if it were intended to be serious.